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In southern Chile, tourism and the Mapuche struggle for ancestral land rights intersect. Leijia Hanrahan examines cultural tourism in Araucanía and Biobío, the risks of treating Indigenous identity as ...
News Chile » Araucania » Politics: After centuries of conflict, Chile's Indigenous Mapuches fear a far-right political turn
PEDRO CAYUQUEO, Chile (AP) — The Mapuches, Chile's biggest Indigenous group, have endured centuries of battle. They resisted conquest first by the ancient Incas, then by the Spanish. They fought as ...
News Chile » Araucania » Politics: Chile History Explained, From Origins to 2026
Chile history begins with indigenous peoples, above all the Mapuche, who resisted Spanish conquest for more than three centuries. Spain founded Santiago in 1541, and Chile proclaimed its independence ...
News Chile » Araucania » Politics: After centuries of conflict, Chile’s Indigenous Mapuches fear a far-right political chapter
PEDRO CAYUQUEO, Chile (AP) — The Mapuches, Chile’s biggest Indigenous group, have endured centuries of battle. They resisted conquest first by the ancient Incas, then by the Spanish. They fought as ...